In 1898, all work on a British railway from Kenya to Uganda came to a halt, as Indian railway workers building the bridge at the Tsavo River began to be attacked and dragged from their camp at night ...(Read More)

Autobiography has been an essential element of the London Review of Books since its founding in 1979, and this volume collects many outstanding pieces of memoir that first appeared in the ...(Read More)

After fainting from shock at the first birth she attended as a student in 1960s Britain, Agnes Light eventually became a nurse and learned to contend with both the medical emergencies and the ...(Read More)

First published in 1907, Edward Porter Alexander's memoir is an unvarnished account of a soldier's life. Regarded as one of the most precise and dispassionate chroniclers of the Civil War, Alexander ...(Read More)

Only five when the Gestapo arrested her mother, Élisabeth Gille grew up remembering almost nothing of her. Irène Némirovsky was a name, a once-popular novelist, a Russian émigré from an immensely ...(Read More)

Returning to the memoir decades after her six-volume autobiography practically re-invented the form, Maya Angelou here charts the most formative relationship of her life in this stirring portrait. ...(Read More)

Paris, by custom and design, is a pedestrian's city; each block is a revelation, and every neighborhood is rich with history and romance. John Baxter—the one-time co-director of the Paris Writers' ...(Read More)

Headstrong, high-spirited, and already widowed, Isabella Walker became Mrs. Henry Robinson at age 31 in 1844. Henry was a successful civil engineer, and moved Isabella and their two sons to Edinburgh ...(Read More)

Born in 1859, and living in relative obscurity until the appearance of this memoir in 1907, J.W. Schultz here recounts his life as a young man living with the Piegan Blackfeet in the Montana ...(Read More)

This wonderfully engaging memoir from the woman who founded America's first certified organic restaurant is the story of a largely unheralded culinary pioneer who made it her mission to bring ...(Read More)